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Polls / Do you prefer NESSAholics.com to be Flash, HTML, or both.
« on: March 13, 2003, 12:09:26 pm »
Flash:
- Pros
- Small download for animated gfx.
- Plugin ships with all major browsers. (IE, NS)
- Cons
- Not supported on all platforms. Unix support is spotty and usually downrev.
- Recent security advisories involving the Flash plugin. Someone didn't audit their code very well...
- Flash within an HTML page doesn't scale. A 800x600 Flash movie looks fine in a low res, but is dinky on someone who has a 1600x1200 display.
- Accessability: screenreaders + Flash == wha? Not like I expect many visually impaired people visit this site, but it's another thing to look at.
- Inability to be indexed by search engines. Content within a Flash file will not be found by Google and the rest.
HTML:
- Pros
- Standard fairly well supported on all modern browsers. Still a few oddities in more recent specificiations, but they're all fairly close.
- Can achieve almost the same results with HTML/CSS as with Flash in the realms of basic rollovers and popups.
- Much easier to style and layout dynamic data appropriately.
- Cons
- Vector based images are larger in GIF/JPG/PNG than Flash.
- Old browsers might handle the Flash better than a current HTML/CSS layout.
Just my $.02.
- Pros
- Small download for animated gfx.
- Plugin ships with all major browsers. (IE, NS)
- Cons
- Not supported on all platforms. Unix support is spotty and usually downrev.
- Recent security advisories involving the Flash plugin. Someone didn't audit their code very well...
- Flash within an HTML page doesn't scale. A 800x600 Flash movie looks fine in a low res, but is dinky on someone who has a 1600x1200 display.
- Accessability: screenreaders + Flash == wha? Not like I expect many visually impaired people visit this site, but it's another thing to look at.
- Inability to be indexed by search engines. Content within a Flash file will not be found by Google and the rest.
HTML:
- Pros
- Standard fairly well supported on all modern browsers. Still a few oddities in more recent specificiations, but they're all fairly close.
- Can achieve almost the same results with HTML/CSS as with Flash in the realms of basic rollovers and popups.
- Much easier to style and layout dynamic data appropriately.
- Cons
- Vector based images are larger in GIF/JPG/PNG than Flash.
- Old browsers might handle the Flash better than a current HTML/CSS layout.
Just my $.02.
